Word: lasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...against a team that had lost six of its last seven games coming into Saturday's match, the Crimson should have been confident after one of their best starts all season. But in a scene familiar to Harvard soccer fans, the team hit the self-destruct button only minutes later...
Neither the Crimson nor the Quakers will see post-season play this year. Harvard ended the season fifth in the Ivy League, while Penn placed last for the second straight year...
...illuminating analogy. Hanson--the red-headed fish-and-chip shop lady--shows what can happen to right-wing extremists unhinged from a main-stream party machine. Hanson came to fame in 1996 with her maiden speech in the House of Representatives, shattering the "political correctness" consensus of the last decade and rocketing herself to political infamy. She then went on to the form the (somewhat ironically titled) One Nation Party. The limelight began to fade for Hanson by 1999 when One Nation was not even One Party. The party and the dream (or nightmare) had ended...
...political credibility. More importantly, once these candidates create or join a fledgling party, pressure is placed on them to generate positive reform proposals rather than to merely point the finger. And again that is where and when Hanson lost her way, as evidenced by her personal defeat at the last election...
...small offshoot of the Labor party), to be formed in order for there to be a vocal and unremitting attack on Hanson. One cannot help but fear that this same complicit silence may descend into mainstream American politics. Given the "disappearance" of Buchanan from the mainstream press over the last month, the American conscience should be on high alert to the Australian danger...